JTA — Michelle Goldberg, a columnist for The New York Times, wrote a piece defending anti-Zionism and saying it is not anti-Semitism.
“The conflation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism is a bit of rhetorical sleight-of-hand that depends on treating Israel as the embodiment of the Jewish people everywhere,” she wrote Friday. “Certainly, some criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic, but it’s entirely possible to oppose Jewish ethno-nationalism without being a bigot.”
The column is a big deal because while The Times opinion page is generally left wing on Israel, most of its columnists who write on the country range from liberal to conservative Zionists.
Goldberg noted that two incoming Democratic congresswoman, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, have endorsed the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, or BDS. She wrote that many people call BDS anti-Semitic because it subjects Israel to a double standard and, in endorsing a return of Palestinian refugees to Israel, could lead to the end of a Jewish-majority state.
Indeed, equating BDS with anti-Semitism is the consensus among a broad swath of Jewish organizations; last week, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, representing over 50 Jewish groups, called Pink Floyd front man Roger Waters “anti-Israel and anti-Jewish” for his vocal support of BDS.
But Goldberg said that opposing Israel and calling for a binational Israeli-Palestinian state is legitimate. She criticized Israel for its government’s close relationship to the Trump administration and right-wing nationalist governments in Europe, as well as for West Bank settlement expansion and the Israeli government’s opposition to Palestinian statehood.
“As long as the de facto policy of the Israeli government is that there should be only one state in historic Palestine,” Goldberg wrote, “it’s unreasonable to regard Palestinian demands for equal rights in that state as anti-Semitic.”
WarSclerotic 
December 8, 2018 at 10:19 PM
At some point hopefully before the seditious Democrat party ,the comrades and fellow travelers of the Red / Green media axis and ministry of propaganda and the endless legion of anti American participants de facto coup de tar will be adjudicated under the 1918 sedition act
December 9, 2018 at 3:30 PM
1- The narrative that Anti-Zionism and anti- Israelism are different from Anti-Semitism is a sickening hypocrisy.
2- Singling out Palestinians as a special group of people who deserve special attention, while forgetting billions of the world population who suffer from human right abuses and wretched life, is an outright racism.
3- Singling out Israel, a free and democratic and civilized country, for hateful pretexts, while keeping blind eye on dictatorships and human right abusers, amongst them murderous regimes, which comprise the majority of the UN members, is a demonic injustice and bigotry.
4- BDS supporters should accept that they are anti-Semitic and extend their repugnant movement to all Jewish achievements and contributions in science, technology, philosophy, culture, music, art, literature, industry, modernity, etc, and live a medieval lifestyle happily ever after.
PS: my estimate is that since 1901, one fourth to one third of all Nobel laureates ( except for peace and literature which are generally politically charged), are either Jews or half Jews.
Muslims with the population of 1.5 billions have produced only 2 Nobel laureates in science: one Pakistani British and one Egyptian American.